Directed by Kasper Collin • 2016 • Sweden, United States
Starring Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, Wayne Shorter
On a snowy night in 1972, celebrated jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan was shot to death by his common-law wife, Helen, at a club in New York City. The memory of the event still haunts those who remember the Morgans. I CALLED HIM MORGAN is a deeply poignant, evocatively filmed tale about two unique personalities, the music that brought them together, love, jazz, and America.
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The Great Hip Hop Hoax
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Greetings from Washington, D.C.
Directed by Lucy Winer • 1981 • United States
Starring Rob Epstein, Jan Oxenberg, Terry LawlerOn October 14, 1979, LGBTQ+ history was made when tens of thousands of people converged on America’s capital for the first ever National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. This empowering ...
